Wages (οψωνια). Late Greek for wages of soldier, here of sin. See on Lu 3:14; 1 Corinthians 9:7; [Reference 2 Corinthi…

For the wages of sin. The word translated here as wages (oqwnia)—properly denotes what is purchased to be eaten with bre…

The gift of God.—The natural antithesis would be wages; but this would here be inappropriate, and therefore the Apostle s…

In a fitting conclusion, Paul puts God (and his mastery) over against sin, gift over against wages, eternal life over against death—crowning it all…

For the wages of sin, etc. Some think that Paul, by comparing death to allowances of meat (obsoniis), disparagingly poin…

For the wages of sin is death

By sin, is meant every sin, original sin, actual sin, every kind of sin, le er and g…

The pleasure and profit of sin do not deserve to be called fruit. Sinners are merely ploughing iniquity, sowing vanity, and reaping the same. Shame…

1. After showing with a reason based on God’s grace that we should not continue in sin but should serve God, the Apostle shows the same thin…